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Tephritis conura
Tephritis conura North Wales
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Tephritidae
Subfamily:	Tephritinae
Tribe:	Tephritini
Genus:	Tephritis
Species:	T. conura
Binomial name
Tephritis conura (Loew, 1844)
Synonyms
Trypeta conura (Loew, 1844)

Tephritis conura is a species of fly in the family Tephritidae, the gall flies. It is found in the Palearctic . The larvae feed on Cirsium heterophyllum and Cirsium oleraceum.

The species has been studied due to the presence of host races specializing on feeding on either of the thistle species C. heterophyllum or C. oleraceum. This is a possible example of an early stage of ecological speciation.

Distribution

United Kingdom & Scandinavia, South and East to Italy, Bulgaria & Caucasus.

References

1. ^ Loew, H. (1844). "Kritische Untersuchung der europäische n Arten des Genus Trypeta Meig". Z. Ent. (Germar). 5: 312–437.
2. Fauna Europaea
3. Bei-Bienko, G.Y. & Steyskal, G.C. (1988) Keys to the Insects of the European Part of the USSR, Volume V: Diptera and Siphonaptera, Parts I, II. Amerind Publishing Co., New Delhi. ISBN 81-205-0080-6 ISBN 81-205-0081-4 .
4. Séguy, E. (1934) Diptères: Brachycères. II. Muscidae acalypterae, Scatophagidae. Paris: Éditions Faune de France 28 Bibliotheque Virtuelle Numerique pdf
5. Norrbom, A.L.; Carroll, L.E.; Thompson, F.C.; White, I.M; Freidberg, A. (1999). "Systematic Database of Names. Pp. 65-252. In Thompson, F. C. (ed.), Fruit Fly Expert Identification System and Systematic Information Database". Myia. 9: vii + 524.
6. Diegisser, Thorsten; Seitz, Alfred; Johannesen, Jes (2006). "Phylogeographic patterns of host‐race evolution in Tephritis conura (Diptera: Tephritidae)". Molecular Ecology. 15 (3): 681–694. doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2006.02792.x. ISSN 0962-1083.

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